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Farmers' DaugJders. 



Vol. XI. 



gives some illustrations of this doctrine. 

 " Bulk," he says, " is nearly as necessary to 

 the articles of diet as the nutrient principle. 

 They should be so managed that one should 

 be in proportion to the other. Too highly 

 nutritive is probably as fatal to the prolon- 

 gation of life and health, as that which con- 

 tains an insufficient quantity of nourish- 

 ment." It is a matter of common remark 

 among old whalemen, that, during long voy- 

 ages, the coarser their bread, the better their 

 health. "I have followed the seas for thirty- 

 five years," said an intelligent sea-captain to 

 Mr. Graham, " and I have been in almost 

 every part of the globe; I have always found 

 that the coarsest pilot-bread, which contains 

 a considerable portion of bran, is decidedly 

 the best for my men." " I am convinced, 

 from my own experience," says another cap- 

 tain, " that bread made of the unbolted wheat 

 meal is far more wholesome than that made 

 from the best superfine flour, the latter al- 

 ways tending to produce constipation." Capt. 

 Dexter, of the ship Isis, belonging to Provi- 

 dence, arrived from China in December, 

 1804. He had been about one hundred and 

 ninety days on the passage. The sea-bread, 

 which constituted the principal article of 

 food for his men, was made of the best su- 

 perfine flour. He had not been long at sea 

 before his men began to complain of languor, 

 loss of appetite, and debility. These diffi- 

 culties continued to increase the whole voy- 

 age ; and several of the hands died on the 

 passage of debility and inanition. The ship 

 was obliged to come to anchor thirty miles 

 below Providence; and such was the debility 

 of the men on board, that they were not able 

 to get the ship under weigh again, and the 

 owners were under the necessity of sending 

 men down from Providence. When she ar- 

 rived the owners asked Capt. Dexter what 

 was the cause of the sickness of his men ] 

 He replied, " The bread was too good." — 

 Chambers' Edinburg Journal. 



It is not education we have reason to fear, 

 but the want of it. The thoroughly edu- 

 cated woman understands her duties and re- 

 sponsibilities better, and is far better quali- 

 fied to discharge them than she otherwise 

 could be; neither do I believe want of em- 

 ployment to be any part of the reason. 



Our girls hear much said of the safety of 

 the agricultural profession — of the almost 

 sure independence of the farmer; but have 

 they ever seen, or ever heard of independ- 

 ence for the farmer's wife? Do they not 

 see that for her there is no cessation from 

 toil — that, as their father's lands increase, 

 so do their mother's cares'? 



They hear that their father has worked 

 hard long enough, and intends to relax from 

 labour, and only oversee his business, with- 

 out hearing it even hinted that their mother 

 could live more comfortably. Though they 

 see their father employ extra help when his 

 work becomes troublesome — which makes 

 the mother's task still harder — they see no 

 indication of her toil being appreciated as 

 long as she can endure it ; and if help must 

 be employed, it is not that she may live 

 easier, but because she can not do what must 

 be done. 



And when the farmer finally determines 

 to take his ease, and sells or rents his farm, 

 he prudently suggests to his wife the neces- 

 sity — as he has given up business — of her 

 managing in such a manner as not to depend 

 on him for funds; perhaps proposes to keep 

 an extra cow, a few sheep, or something of 

 the kind, to enable her to supply herself 

 with necessaries. Who ever heard of a 

 farmer's wife being' able to live without 

 work, while she had the use of her feet and 

 hands 1 



There is no class of women of whom so 

 great an amount of care and labour is re- 

 quired as among farmers, nor where the de- 

 pendence of wives is more thorough. — Gen- 

 esee Farmer. 



Farmers' Daughters. 



It is often remarked with some surprise, 

 that farmers' daughters seldom prefer hus- 

 bands of that profession ; and many farmers 

 believe that educating girls, produces a dis- 

 relish for rural life. Others have thought the 

 blame was with mothers, in not confining 

 them to business sufficiently to make it 

 agreeable to them, or that they had neglect- 

 ed to impress them with the idea, that farm- 

 ers were the only men suitable for husbands. 

 In my humble opinion, if they would look to 

 themselves for the cause, they would be 

 quite sure of finding it. 



An Extra Cow. — Dea. Quartus Smith, 

 of Sunderland, has a cow ten years old, 

 which on the 5th of December last, weighed 

 1,520 lbs. She came in on the 31st of Jan- 

 uary, and on the third day thereafter, she 

 gave in twenty-four hours forty-eight pounds 

 and three ounces of milk, from which were 

 made three pounds and two ounces of buttei 

 of the first quality, a specimen of which 

 has been sent us, and appears equal ir 

 every respect to the best made in the spring 

 She has since given fifty-one pounds o 

 milk in twenty-four hours. — Amherst Ex- 

 press. 



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